English

Partitions with fixed largest hook length

Combinatorics 2016-04-15 v1

Abstract

Motivated by a recent paper of Straub, we study the distribution of integer partitions according to the length of their largest hook, instead of the usual statistic, namely the size of the partitions. We refine Straub's analogue of Euler's Odd-Distinct partition theorem, derive a generalization in the spirit of Alder's conjecture, as well as a curious analogue of the first Rogers-Ramanujan identity. Moreover, we obtain a partition theorem that is the counterpart of Euler's pentagonal number theory in this setting, and connect it with the Rogers-Fine identity. We concludes with some congruence properties.

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@article{arxiv.1604.04028,
  title  = {Partitions with fixed largest hook length},
  author = {Shishuo Fu and Dazhao Tang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.04028},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

15 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables

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